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Mehmed Hüsnü Efendi

Born 1858/59 (AH 1275) · Ayvalı, Taşköprü · Dated entries 1875 to 1895 (AH 1292 to 1312)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d.,145/139

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 10 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

TaşköprüTosyaBartın
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 10 · Ayvalı, Taşköprü

How to read this map

Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

2 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1858/59 (AH 1275)

    Ayvalı, Taşköprü

    Not yet located on the map: Ayvalı, Taşköprü

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Taşköprü

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 17

    2. Maliye Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 17

  3. 3

    1876/77 (AH 1293) · 3 recorded years

    Taşköprü

    AH entries: 1293, 1294, 1295. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Maliye Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 18

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mal müdürü refakat memuru

      190 kuruşCalculated age 20

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Taşköprü / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Taşköprü

      Mal müdürü refakat memuru

      190 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Taşköprü

      Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 21

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Taşköprü / Place not recorded / Günferi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Günferi

    1. Taşköprü

      Bidayet Mahkemesi ikinci kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Günferi

      Aşar ve Ağnam Müdürlüğü ikinci kâtibi

      350 kuruşCalculated age 22

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Günferi / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Günferi; Location not recorded

    1. Günferi

      Aşar ve Ağnam Müdürlüğü ikinci kâtibi

      350 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      İstifa

      Calculated age 23

  7. 7

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded / Tosya

    AH entries: 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Nakil

      Calculated age 26

    2. Place not recorded

      Azil

      Calculated age 27

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Bartın

    1. Nüfus memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 33

  9. 9

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Bartın / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Bartın

      Nüfus memuru

      250 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 34

  10. 10

    1894/95 (AH 1312)

    Taşköprü

    1. Sandık emini

      360 kuruşCalculated age 37

5 entries without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.

Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.

How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

View the yearly values
Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1877/78 (AH 1294)190450150 to 1,80013.6%1160
1878 (AH 1295)190450150 to 2,00013.5%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)250400150 to 2,00021.4%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)350400180 to 1,80039.5%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)350400160 to 1,50041.0%1448
1883/84 (AH 1301)450400150 to 1,40055.6%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)450400150 to 1,50054.7%1748
1890/91 (AH 1308)250400125 to 1,50021.5%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)250400140 to 1,60021.3%1927
1894/95 (AH 1312)360400140 to 1,50042.3%2004

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1875 to 1895 (AH 1292 to 1312)
  2. 1890 to 1892 (AH 1308 to 1309)
  3. Günferi2
    1879 to 1881 (AH 1297 to 1298)
  4. 1883 to 1885 (AH 1301 to 1302)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Taşköprü130 to 360
  2. Günferi350

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1877 to 1879 (AH 1294 to 1296)
  2. 1875 to 1878 (AH 1292 to 1294)
  3. 1883 to 1885 (AH 1301 to 1302)
  4. 1879 to 1881 (AH 1297 to 1298)
  5. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
  6. 1878 to 1892 (AH 1296 to 1309)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Kastamonu Rüşdiyesi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokuryazar [1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Taşköprülü memurlar

    VİLDAN ŞAHİN · 2023 · Pages 124, 125, 126

    BOA. DH. SAİD. d.,145/139

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The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 12 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 22 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

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